[ Today's Readings ]
Service and hospitality at wonderful things. Through them some "have entertained angels unawares" (see Hebrews 13:2) as Abraham does in the first reading today. When we suffer for the sake of others we will up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church.
The danger is that serving can become a distraction. We become so anxious and worried about many things that we forget the most important thing. Serving and hospitality have to do with the variables we can control and the things we can offer. But sometimes we simply need to come to the feet of Jesus where we have nothing to give. We need to come and sit at his feet and receive and listen. We must first realize that all good things begin with God. We have nothing good to give that we don't first receive (see first Corinthians 4:7).
If we begin by sitting at the feet of Jesus and listening we still entertain the angels who visit us. We still suffer for the sake of the Church. Yet we are not burdened with serving in the same way. We begin to love with the love with we ourselves first receive. We are no longer as anxious or as worried because we come to Jesus for the better part, the part that cannot be taken from us.
Because we live in the presence of the LORD it becomes possible to live with justice.
He who does justice will live in the presence of the Lord.
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